Welcome to Year 2
Welcome to Autumn Term in Year 2! Please find on this page all the information you might need this year. There is a long term plan as well as Autumn's knowledge organisers below, which will be updated termly. Should you need anything further, please get in touch!
Mrs Moleele will be teaching on a Monday and Tuesday and Miss Christie will teach on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Miss Smith will support the children throughout the week with Mrs McDonald and Miss Battye sharing the week between them.
Year 2 Class Blog
TTRS
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The children have had a fab day dressed as rockstars! Thank you all for such an amazing effort with their outfits (photos on the newsletter). They were very excited to get the chance to try TTRS in class, and this will continue weekly going forwards. The children should all have brought home their logins to practice this weekend - can't wait to see their progress in the coming months! The best game for them to practice at the moment is probably Jamming, when they can select to just have multiplication questions (no division yet) and they can choose just their 10s or 2s until they get more confident. Once they get confident enough, the programme will automatically make them choose something more challenging. For the meantime, it's just about being exposed to mulitplication and having fun so there is no pressure but some practice at home at least once per week is what we would hope for. Enjoy!
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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The children had a great day at the Sculpture Park on Tuesday, with beautiful weather too! They enjoyed seeing lots of the sculptures and even more, had the chance to learn skills from a real artist. Thank you to our parent volunteers for helping make it such a great day!
Year 2 Spelling Homework
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Tonight we are sending home our weekly spelling homework. This is a list of words taken from our previous learning in phonics and the National Curriculum Year 1 and Year 2 spelling list.
The children can practise spelling the words by saying and writing the word on one side of the sheet and exploring the word further on the opposite side.
Please feel free to practise the spellings in other ways if that better suits your child eg use magnetic letters, using technology or painting.
You do not need to return the sheet to school as we will use the words in a dictation the following week to check the children's learning.
Getting into Routine
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This week has been the children's first full week with all their lessons! It's been a busy one but there has been lots of fun and learning. They have started their DT topic on fairground rides, got engrossed in James and the Giant Peach and had lots of practical maths, creating and partitioning numbers to 100.
Welcome to Year 2!
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It’s been a great first week in Year 2! The children have all seemed excited to be back and have got stuck in with all their new learning!
We have been looking at a book called The Planet in a Pickle Jar, which is all about preserving our favourite things so they never disappear and our week’s learning culminated in us making our own pickle jars to save the world this afternoon! It was lovely to see so many creative ideas - trees, weather, animals, food - see for yourselves below!
We have also been working practically in maths, making numbers to 100 with various apparatus, counting in groups of 10 to help us count more quickly and easily.
Well done, Year 2! Have a lovely weekend ready for more next week!
Year 2 Class Blog
Ferris wheel fun!
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We’ve had a fantastic week in Year 2 with a focus on our DT (Design Technology) for this term. We have designed, and are in the middle of making, our working models of a Ferris wheel. The children have been working in pairs to create these. A big well done to Edwin and James who have managed to get theirs stood up and working already! Just need to add the pods for passengers next. Check back here next week for the finished wheels.
Fabulous First Week Back!
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We have had a great first week back after the half term holiday. We have continued with our biography writing about Malala Yousafzai, started our geography topic all about Yorkshire and begun our new set of PE sessions. I had intended to upload some photos of PE - ball skills, but we were having so much fun in the lesson, I forgot to take any pictures!
Here is some more practical maths for you instead! We have been looking at how making 10 can help with adding 3 one-digit numbers. Which of these would you find easier to complete?
End of Half Term 1
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What a fantastic first half term we have had in Year 2! The children have been amazing. They show a thirst for knowledge and a real love of learning. This week, we have started our Addition and Subtraction unit in maths and below are some pictures of us using ten-frames and counters to physically represent all the number bonds to 10 in our first lesson recapping Year 1 learning. Make sure you also check out Seesaw, where the children did their final responses to our RE unit; Gospel. There they explained how they found the good news that Jesus taught of friendship, forgiveness and peace in their lives at school.
Andy Warhol inspired art
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This term in our art lessons, we have been looking at the work of Andy Warhol. We have commented on one of his most famous works explaining why we like it and what we notice. We then took selfies to turn into Warhol inspired pieces.
Trip to Nell Bank
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On Friday, we had a fantastic visit to Nell Bank. The very wet weather didn’t hold us back and we did some great fun and hands on learning linked to our science topic - Living Things and their Habitats. We learnt how different animals use their senses to help them to thrive in their habitats; did a habitat trail and finished the day with some pond dipping. The children behaved impeccably and the staff at Nell Bank were amazed with their science knowledge and resilience in less an ideal conditions. Well done to everyone!
